We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.
Satisfied relies too heavily on middle-of-the-road mid-tempo numbers.
Safe Inside the Day isn’t immediately loveable, but it’s smart and original.
Machine music this unrelentingly intimate is worth the attention it requires.
Ghostface is no different from other crazy capitalists like Jeff Koons.
The Steeldrivers stands as one of the most accomplished and certainly one of the most distinctive bluegrass debuts in recent memory.
Angels of Destruction! too often smothers its solid roots-rock foundation in strident overproduction.
It really is like as if Sondheim tried to replicate the Jesus and Mary Chain.
The latest album from Rhonda Vincent and her stellar backing band, the Rage, finds the bluegrass star aiming for a more mainstream country sound.
Sia’s Some People Have Real Problems is the first great pop album of the new year.
Top 10 lists are an exercise in futility, scenester-ism and dick-measuring.
For a collection of lo-fi home demos, Rivers Cuomo’s Alone, in its better moments, sure does sound at times like a return to form.
Sweet Dreams is more faithful to snyth-pop’s avant-garde roots than Touch.
For a certain kind of music nerd, the idea of the humorous rock song will always be blasphemy.
The solo debut of Terius Nash includes a few flashes of greatness and plenty of potential.
It’s hard to get beyond the very title of Mary J. Blige’s eighth overstuffed collection of affirmations, self-definitions, and keepin’-it-real-isms.
we could do worse than give Beanie Sigel the benefit of the doubt.
It’s Patrick Wolf who earns our pick for Album of the Year for following two impressive records with one that’s even more extraordinary.
Aesop’s indomitable presence and knotty co-production make what he says incidental to how he says it.
Panda Bear, everyone’s favorite endangered species and Animal Collectivist, masters problems of scope on Person Pitch.
That Ritter has made what is arguably a better record song-for-song than any that Bob Dylan has released this decade isn’t a backhanded compliment.